obsessed with byron

 
you know that you are in a town obsessed by surfing when the first, third and last pages of the morning newspaper are dominated by surf stories. [should or should not the rip curl pro tour be held at lennox head near byron bay]. and every second store is a surfwear/surf accessories store [my dream [...]

today’s entertainment is: max

a friend who appreciates humour yesterday sent me the link to this guardian travel blog. it’s fucking hilarious so you have to read it, especially for the comments. i wish my travel blogs could elicit such passion.
in 2006 when i was hanging around india nepal and tibet i met ’max’. i liked ‘max’ a lot [though i have [...]

the workshop that cannot be spoken of

ive recently returned from a librarians workshop, which im not allowed to blog about directly, the consequences of which will see me permanently blacklisted from the library profession.
i’m not going to write anything about it directly either, because i also like the idea of the code of silence that gives the aura of  this workshop being a cult, [...]

double pluggers

the double plugger had totally escaped my mind until this week, when it came up quite casually in two  conversations. determined to reconnect with a fading memory i searched the web until i found a worthy double plugger image. 
having grown up by the beach, i get quite nostalgic when it comes to things like cheap synthetic footwear.  [...]

you do the math

i thought that my period of working 50 hour days was a thing of my dark past, until this week, where I am trying to get our budgets done. but of course they wont freaking balance.  im not very good at adding up and doing percentages so it takes me a bit longer than the average accountant.
my colleague, who is [...]

excuse generator

That could destory the firewall…
A change in the library website might cause radiosity depletion…
If we enhance our firewall settings, it would ruin the ambient feng shui!!!
We have to protect the way we’ve always done it!!!
http://www.daveyp.com/cgi-bin/excuses/gen.pl

blogger’s block

since being unceremoniously dragged from the library to the town hall to work, i no longer have an inspiring workplace from which to write about. i am particularly spewing because my bicycle commute to work now an outrageus 10 minutes further. 
 it made me happy today to go back to the library and sit at my old [...]

vend-o-mania

you name it, there is a vending machine that dispenses it in japan.
probably the biggest vending urban myth is the ONE vending machine in inner city tokyo that dispenses used women’s underwear. no one has ever seen it but everyone talks about it. well apparently this is it:
 
vending is a national passtime, as seen by [...]

新年快乐

it’s the first day of the lunar year. out of one ear i can hear katy reading a list of words such as glug, whirls twirls, twit twoo, iguana, chameleon, pitter patter, icky and yikes (shes obviously about to do a reptilian storytime) and out of the other ear justin timberlake is bringing sexy back whilst throwning back [...]

the librarians party circuit

so it’s ‘party time’ in melboune right now ’cause of the big library technology conference that is on and all the suppliers are keen to impress clients and potential clients.
so i dragged the new reader services librarian (she’s irish, she likes wine, and by her own admission she’s a lush after a few glasses) and katy [...]